QM2 is being built in the Alstom Chantiers de
L'Atlantique shipyard in Sainte-Nazaire, France. This is the same yard that
built the
France
(now the Norway), Normandie,
Ile de France and some of the other great
liners of the past. At a total estimated cost of $800 million USD, she will
also be the most expensive ship ever built. She is expected to enter service
in January 2004.